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If everyone in our local area devotes a small patch of their garden to nature we will have created a small nature reserve
Today we welcome our first ‘guest blogger’, Hannah Wakley who has kindly written about how she has devoted areas of her garden to nature and wild-life and dedicated it to our Evington Community Nature Reserve. I live in a terrace house so my back garden is narrow but quite long. I also have a small, …
If, like us, you have a patch of lawn or garden that doesn’t get a lot of sunlight, is often damp and doesn’t enable much to grow on it – even grass – have a think about creating a bog garden. Our patch is in a corner of a lawn in our almost-North-facing front garden. …
As reported in our last article, our aim is to develop a community nature reserve, with households in our area devoting four metre-squared of their garden to nature. In that article we suggested five cheap and easy ways to join in. In this article, we’re describing five more challenging ways of using your four metre- …
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As a new year’s resolution, we’re planning a new community nature reserve in our area of Leicester. If we’re successful, local residents will devote a small section of their garden to nature. We’re not asking people to go large on this: think of a social distance — two metres — and then imagine a square …
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